Quotes About Identity

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me

You don't know your father, do you?"I shook my head. "No. All I know is he must have had wicked cool hair."Dimitri glanced up, and his eyes swept me. "Yes. He must have.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

To get to this place of a warrior's courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.